• Hello!  Please note that the information on this page is largely out of date and under construction.

    PLL is now focused solely on Leadership Development; teacher pathway and development programs are all now under the Office of Teaching and Learning.

    Stay tuned for a new page coming soon!

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  • Professional Learning and Leadership
    Charting a New Course for Leadership, Scholarship, and Agency

  • Department Vision:

    Our department seeks to cultivate multiple pathways for leaders and educators to expand their career opportunities. We want every PPS employee to want to spend their entire career in PPS - and have multiple, supported possibilities for doing so.

    Development and advancement can occur horizontally or vertically within the district - educators can move “up” or “sideways” to a variety of roles depending on their interest and skills. No matter how educators move through what we call the “Career Lattice,” our department seeks to grow educators across the system who embody PPS’s Educator Essentials  -- educators who are caring, empathetic, relational, future-focused problem solvers and who demonstrate effective collaboration, anti-racist practice, and courageous leadership.

    Ultimately, we strive to lead shifts that turn PPS into a premier learning organization. We envision our system supporting every single employee and team to learn and grow in the significant ways we need to in order to support our district’s vision and graduate portrait.

  • Department Programs

    To build out our Career Lattice, PLL supports multiple programs across the continuum of educators’ careers, as shown below. Within each stage of career development, we have or are building programs that support both teachers and leaders to grow. Ultimately, we aim to have programs for all job types across PPS. Click on the cards below to learn more about our programs.

     

Contacts

Loretta Benjamin-Samuels
Senior Director
Mary Patterson
Assistant Director, Special Projects
503-916-5093
Dr. Emily Donaldson Walsh
Program Manager
971-387-6499
Shant'e Hayes
Administrative Assistant
503-916-5093
Dawn Gillis
Director, PLL Programs

PPS Principal Pipeline

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  • Department programs flow chart